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90_HB0229eng
25 ILCS 105/1 from Ch. 63, par. 801
25 ILCS 115/4 from Ch. 63, par. 15.1
Amends the Legislative Materials Act. Authorizes the
Clerk of the House, to the extent authorized by House Rules,
to establish a schedule of reasonable fees to be charged to
members for the preparation, filing, and reproduction of
non-substantive resolutions. Amends the General Assembly
Compensation Act to authorize members to pay resolution fees
from their office allowances. Effective immediately.
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1 AN ACT concerning fees of the Clerk of the House.
2 Be it enacted by the People of the State of Illinois,
3 represented in the General Assembly:
4 Section 5. The Legislative Materials Act is amended by
5 changing Section 1 as follows:
6 (25 ILCS 105/1) (from Ch. 63, par. 801)
7 Sec. 1. Fees.
8 (a) The Clerk of the House of Representatives may
9 establish a schedule of reasonable fees to be charged for
10 providing copies of daily and bound journals, committee
11 documents, committee tape recordings, transcripts of
12 committee proceedings, and committee notices, for providing
13 copies of bills on a continuing or individual basis, and for
14 providing tape recordings and transcripts of floor debates
15 and other proceedings of the House.
16 (b) The Secretary of the Senate may establish a schedule
17 of reasonable fees to be charged for providing copies of
18 daily and bound journals, committee notices, for providing
19 copies of bills on a continuing or individual basis, and for
20 providing tape recordings and transcripts of floor debates
21 and other proceedings of the Senate.
22 (c) The Clerk of the House of Representatives and the
23 Secretary of the Senate may establish a schedule of
24 reasonable fees to be charged for providing live audio of
25 floor debates and other proceedings of the House of
26 Representatives and the Senate. The Clerk and the Secretary
27 shall have complete discretion over the distribution of live
28 audio under this subsection (c), including discretion over
29 the conditions under which live audio shall be distributed,
30 except that live audio shall be distributed to the General
31 Assembly and its staffs. Nothing in this subsection (c)
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1 shall be construed to create an obligation on the part of the
2 Clerk or Secretary to provide live audio to any person or
3 entity other than to the General Assembly and its staffs.
4 (c-5) The Clerk of the House of Representatives, to the
5 extent authorized by the House Rules, may establish a
6 schedule of reasonable fees to be charged to members for the
7 preparation, filing, and reproduction of non-substantive
8 resolutions.
9 (d) Receipts from all fees established under subsections
10 (a), (b), and (c), and (c-5) shall be deposited by the Clerk
11 and the Secretary into the General Assembly Operations
12 Revolving Fund, a special fund in the State treasury. Amounts
13 in the Fund may be appropriated for the operations of the
14 offices of the Clerk of the House of Representatives and the
15 Secretary of the Senate.
16 (Source: P.A. 88-535; 88-656, eff. 9-16-94.)
17 Section 10. The General Assembly Compensation Act is
18 amended by changing Section 4 as follows:
19 (25 ILCS 115/4) (from Ch. 63, par. 15.1)
20 Sec. 4. Office allowance. Beginning July 1, 1989, each
21 member of the House of Representatives is authorized to
22 approve the expenditure of not more than $47,000 per year and
23 each member of the Senate is authorized to approve the
24 expenditure of not more than $57,000 per year to pay for
25 "personal services", "contractual services", "commodities",
26 "printing", "travel", "operation of automotive equipment",
27 "telecommunications services", as defined in the State
28 Finance Act, and the compensation of one or more legislative
29 assistants authorized pursuant to this Section, in connection
30 with his or her legislative duties and not in connection with
31 any political campaign. A member may purchase office
32 equipment if the member certifies to the Secretary of the
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1 Senate or the Clerk of the House, as applicable, that the
2 purchase price, whether paid in lump sum or installments,
3 amounts to less than would be charged for renting or leasing
4 the equipment over its anticipated useful life. All such
5 equipment must be purchased through the Secretary of the
6 Senate or the Clerk of the House, as applicable, for proper
7 identification and verification of purchase.
8 Each member of the General Assembly is authorized to
9 employ one or more legislative assistants, who shall be
10 solely under the direction and control of that member, for
11 the purpose of assisting the member in the performance of his
12 or her official duties. A legislative assistant may be
13 employed pursuant to this Section either under contract or as
14 a State employee, at the discretion of the member. If
15 employed as a State employee, a legislative assistant shall
16 receive employment benefits on the same terms and conditions
17 that apply to other employees of the General Assembly.
18 As used in this Section the term "personal services"
19 shall include contributions of the State under the Federal
20 Insurance Contribution Act and under Article 14 of the
21 Illinois Pension Code. As used in this Section the
22 term"contractual services" shall not include improvements to
23 real property unless those improvements are the obligation of
24 the lessee under the lease agreement. Beginning July 1, 1989,
25 as used in the Section, the term "travel" shall be limited to
26 travel in connection with a member's legislative duties and
27 not in connection with any political campaign. Beginning
28 July 1, 1989, as used in this Section, the term "printing"
29 includes congratulatory mailings, including but not limited
30 to greeting or welcome messages, anniversary or birthday
31 cards, and congratulations for prominent achievement cards.
32 As used in this Section, the term "printing" includes fees
33 for non-substantive resolutions charged by the Clerk of the
34 House of Representatives under subsection (c-5) of Section 1
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1 of the Legislative Materials Act. Nothing in this Section
2 shall be construed to authorize expenditures for lodging and
3 meals while a member is in attendance at sessions of the
4 General Assembly.
5 Any utility bill for service provided to a member's
6 district office for a period including portions of 2
7 consecutive fiscal years may be paid from funds appropriated
8 for such expenditure in either fiscal year.
9 If a vacancy occurs in the office of Senator or
10 Representative in the General Assembly, any office equipment
11 in the possession of the vacating member shall transfer to
12 the member's successor; if the successor does not want such
13 equipment, it shall be transferred to the Secretary of the
14 Senate or Clerk of the House of Representatives, as the case
15 may be, and if not wanted by other members of the General
16 Assembly then to the Department of Central Management
17 Services for treatment as surplus property under the State
18 Property Control Act. Each member, on or before June 30th of
19 each year, shall conduct an inventory of all equipment
20 purchased pursuant to this Act. Such inventory shall be
21 filed with the Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the
22 House, as the case may be. Whenever a vacancy occurs, the
23 Secretary of the Senate or the Clerk of the House, as the
24 case may be, shall conduct an inventory of equipment
25 purchased.
26 In the event that a member leaves office during his or
27 her term, any unexpended or unobligated portion of the
28 allowance granted under this Section shall lapse. The
29 vacating member's successor shall be granted an allowance in
30 an amount, rounded to the nearest dollar, computed by
31 dividing the annual allowance by 365 and multiplying the
32 quotient by the number of days remaining in the fiscal year.
33 From any appropriation for the purposes of this Section
34 for a fiscal year which overlaps 2 General Assemblies, no
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1 more than 1/2 of the annual allowance per member may be spent
2 or encumbered by any member of either the outgoing or
3 incoming General Assembly, except that any member of the
4 incoming General Assembly who was a member of the outgoing
5 General Assembly may encumber or spend any portion of his
6 annual allowance within the fiscal year.
7 The appropriation for the annual allowances permitted by
8 this Section shall be included in an appropriation to the
9 President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the House of
10 Representatives for their respective members. The President
11 of the Senate and the Speaker of the House shall voucher for
12 payment individual members' expenditures from their annual
13 office allowances to the State Comptroller, subject to the
14 authority of the Comptroller under Section 9 of the State
15 Comptroller Act.
16 (Source: P.A. 87-1142; 88-656, eff. 9-16-94.)
17 Section 99. Effective date. This Act takes effect upon
18 becoming law.